How should we deal with similarly named communities? - eviltoast

Right now there are similarely named communities across the fediverse.

“fediverse@xxx”, “Linux@xxx”, “asklemmy”, “askkbin”…etc…

I’m on kbin and I’m having a hard time figuring out how to use the fediverse more productively, by reaching the largest amount of people for asking questions, solving problems, simply put: to engage… like I used to do on Reddit?

  • Dusty@l.dusty-radio.com
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    1 year ago

    Even more so since profiles are generally less anonymous than reddit.

    How so?

    My profile tells you I use an instance (in this case my own, dusty-radio) and my username on that instance (in this case Dusty). All this tells you is the name I’ve chosen and that I host this myself. It’s no different than if I was Dusty on reddit, other than the instance URL.

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Supposedly your entire up-vote / down-vote history is publically available through some API calls. I haven’t verified it myself, but the what I have seen makes it look plausible.